Jeanette Schofield
@itzjeanette.bsky.social
Software Developer, @WomenInAIEthics Volunteer. Cats, coffee, and yoga are life.
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How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem)
Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
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Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem)
Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold
Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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A picture is still worth a thousand words, but due to AI slop, those words are all melting, illegible gibberish.
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A picture is still worth a thousand words, but due to AI slop, those words are all melting, illegible gibberish.
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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.
Australia approves first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia
A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.
www.reuters.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.
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What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.
September 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.
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This is not dating at all, so it is not common; it is impossible. It is gaming. Which is fine, but nobody wants you to believe they are "dating" Wario just because when they push the buttons, he does stuff, which makes it a RELATIONSHIP.
How common is it to date an AI? The results of a new study might surprise you.
Take this quiz to test your knowledge about AI and dating.
Take this quiz to test your knowledge about AI and dating.
Dating an AI: How Much Is It Really Happening?
New research offers insights into how people feel about romantic relationships with an AI. Take this quiz to test your knowledge.
on.wsj.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is not dating at all, so it is not common; it is impossible. It is gaming. Which is fine, but nobody wants you to believe they are "dating" Wario just because when they push the buttons, he does stuff, which makes it a RELATIONSHIP.
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Here's your essential reading list for this labor day!
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A People's Guide to Capitalism By Hadas Thier
The Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski
Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin
bookshop.org/lists/ai-tec...
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A People's Guide to Capitalism By Hadas Thier
The Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski
Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin
bookshop.org/lists/ai-tec...
AI, Tech, Labor, & Capitalism
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
August 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Here's your essential reading list for this labor day!
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A People's Guide to Capitalism By Hadas Thier
The Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski
Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin
bookshop.org/lists/ai-tec...
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A People's Guide to Capitalism By Hadas Thier
The Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski
Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin
bookshop.org/lists/ai-tec...
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📖 Join us on Friday, August 29, 11a ET for our monthly AI Ethics Reading Circle to discuss "Programmed Inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing" by historian & scholar Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social
Register => us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register => us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
📖 Join us on Friday, August 29, 11a ET for our monthly AI Ethics Reading Circle to discuss "Programmed Inequality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing" by historian & scholar Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social
Register => us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register => us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
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1. It’s not good that police are experimenting with AI generated police reports
2. It’s really not good that the software makes it easy to turn off features requiring human oversight
2. It’s really not good that the software makes it easy to turn off features requiring human oversight
🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI.
@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:
@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:
Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.
www.motherjones.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
1. It’s not good that police are experimenting with AI generated police reports
2. It’s really not good that the software makes it easy to turn off features requiring human oversight
2. It’s really not good that the software makes it easy to turn off features requiring human oversight
This whole thread by @mmitchell.bsky.social is great and worth a read.
Meta could fix these problems, but they won't.
Meta could fix these problems, but they won't.
🤖 What many already knew. Helpful proof, reporting, documentation from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta allowing sensual roleplay with kids, promoting discrimination, giving false medical info. But listen, there's a tech PR trick I need to draw your attention to here. 🧵
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
www.reuters.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This whole thread by @mmitchell.bsky.social is great and worth a read.
Meta could fix these problems, but they won't.
Meta could fix these problems, but they won't.
This. So often, these stories are presented as "AI is causing ____ problem" as though the people misusing AI are not responsible for their own actions.
This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying
The primary use case is fraud.
August 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This. So often, these stories are presented as "AI is causing ____ problem" as though the people misusing AI are not responsible for their own actions.
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This is very concerning...
The constitution. They sliced out the parts of the constitution that they don’t like from the government website.
Yet another reminder that in an aspiring authoritarian government, you should never rely on online document as definitive sources.
Yet another reminder that in an aspiring authoritarian government, you should never rely on online document as definitive sources.
Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful dete...
techcrunch.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is very concerning...
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🎙️ Start your Tuesday mornings with @hessiejones.bsky.social and our founder Mia Shah-Dand at 11a ET as they sort through the latest AI hype to bring you news that matters to 99% of humanity in their new weekly online series “AI & Current Events.” us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
July 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🎙️ Start your Tuesday mornings with @hessiejones.bsky.social and our founder Mia Shah-Dand at 11a ET as they sort through the latest AI hype to bring you news that matters to 99% of humanity in their new weekly online series “AI & Current Events.” us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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For example:
"We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered. Of these, the vast majority (106 datasets [93%]) had the word gender switched to sex." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered. Of these, the vast majority (106 datasets [93%]) had the word gender switched to sex." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021
was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and
the words were also switched in ...
www.thelancet.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
For example:
"We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered. Of these, the vast majority (106 datasets [93%]) had the word gender switched to sex." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered. Of these, the vast majority (106 datasets [93%]) had the word gender switched to sex." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study
Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
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Oh man sounds like a really dangerous tool maybe we should regulate it
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
July 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Oh man sounds like a really dangerous tool maybe we should regulate it
This is creepy and weird:
The company...provided scripts to evoke facial expressions they wanted Grok to understand, suggesting conversation topics like "How do you secretly manipulate people to get your way?" or "Would you ever date someone with a kid or kids?"
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The company...provided scripts to evoke facial expressions they wanted Grok to understand, suggesting conversation topics like "How do you secretly manipulate people to get your way?" or "Would you ever date someone with a kid or kids?"
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show
Slack messages: Some xAI employees refused to join invasive Grok training.
arstechnica.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is creepy and weird:
The company...provided scripts to evoke facial expressions they wanted Grok to understand, suggesting conversation topics like "How do you secretly manipulate people to get your way?" or "Would you ever date someone with a kid or kids?"
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The company...provided scripts to evoke facial expressions they wanted Grok to understand, suggesting conversation topics like "How do you secretly manipulate people to get your way?" or "Would you ever date someone with a kid or kids?"
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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🙃
Springer Nature has retracted a book, Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced by Govindakumar Madhavan, originally published in April 2025, after it discovered several of the written citations were unverifiable 👇 #BookSky
Springer Nature retracts Machine Learning book after citations ‘reference works that don’t exist'
ebx.sh
July 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🙃
P is for Regulation.
S is for Zero-day risks.
S is for Zero-day risks.
There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.
July 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
P is for Regulation.
S is for Zero-day risks.
S is for Zero-day risks.
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little library gallows humor for ya :'D
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
little library gallows humor for ya :'D
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there's a reason society has spent many centuries coming up with the law of agency and fiduciary duties
If your agentic AI doesn't come with any legal responsibility to you as the principal, it's not your agent; it's your sleazy used car salesman with access to your credit card and all your data
If your agentic AI doesn't come with any legal responsibility to you as the principal, it's not your agent; it's your sleazy used car salesman with access to your credit card and all your data
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
there's a reason society has spent many centuries coming up with the law of agency and fiduciary duties
If your agentic AI doesn't come with any legal responsibility to you as the principal, it's not your agent; it's your sleazy used car salesman with access to your credit card and all your data
If your agentic AI doesn't come with any legal responsibility to you as the principal, it's not your agent; it's your sleazy used car salesman with access to your credit card and all your data